New World Order

 

 Laila Ahsan

The powerful countries of the world have always been desirous to rule over the world through various means. After World War-II, the United States of America and Russia appeared to be the two superpowers of the world and they played a pivotal role in the world's economy and political matters. But in 1991, the great Soviet Union (USSR) had broken into pieces, Russia's splendid kingdom had partitioned in 12 states; these twelve new states of Russia had emerged on the map of the world. After the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), being a sole superpower of that time, the United States of America (USA) started to increase its influence on those newly emerged states; it also initiated to spread the impact in other countries as well. World Bank has warned that due to COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% and it would be the worst economic recession since the World War-II.  

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The historic mishap of 9/11 had badly affected the US economy, and we witnessed the collapse of Iraq and Afghanistan regimes afterward. Before that, in 2010, Arab spring started to take place; as a result, it was seen that the regimes were rapidly falling and rising, and this dramatic fall and rise of the regimes is continued.

Presently some unfortunate war-torn countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and others are facing the situation of civil unrest, their economy has been badly affected. The Countries which were once at daggers drawn with the United States, nowadays they are provided US aid,  American military camps have been established, meanwhile, their oil installations have been taken over by Americans. There are certain crisis-stricken countries in the Middle East and some parts of Africa where foreign policies and internal policies are formulated following the wishes of the United States.

On the other hand, China has appeared to be the world’s new economic power, it gradually expanded its reach to global markets, now we can see Chinese commercial markets in almost every corner of the world. Some economy experts say China will soon emerge as the world's largest economy and because of Donald Trump’s foreign dealings and the ongoing trade war with China, the American economy will experience a decline in the future.

COVID -19 pandemic is going to bring again a new world order, where the United States of America and China will play key roles but at the same time, United Kingdom, Israel, European Union, and even India look ambitious to participate in the process. As we can see the Covid-19 pandemic is now subsiding in most countries, now its impact will further damage the global economy; the American economy seems no exception but China will be the only country that will emerge as a sole superpower of the world.

Turkey seems to be rapidly moving towards changing the status quo of the regions of the Ottoman era. Tensions between Turkey and Greece in Eastern Mediterranean are not likely to de-escalate soon; Greece and Turkey have been conducting maritime exercises with their allies in the disputed Mediterranean, both have increased their military presence in parts of the disputer Seawater. Both European allies are claiming their right on the hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President on August 25, during celebrations anniversary on the occasion of the Malazgirt Battle of 1071 said “Those who want to confront us at the expenses of paying a price, be our guest. Otherwise, do not stand in front of us.” Germany on the other hand is trying to diffuse the escalation," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Athens that “the current situation in the eastern Mediterranean is equivalent to playing with fire.”

Koert Debeuf, an associate researcher for the Institute for European Studies has expressed some threatening observations and analyses about a possible confrontation in the Middle-East. In an analysis for EU Observer, he said: “Today there are two enemy alliances as there were in 2014, Germany, Australia, Hungary were dealing with the United Kingdom, France and USSR and now there is the ‘revolutionary alliance of Turkey, Qatar, Iran and Muslim brotherhood against Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.”

The Australian economy in the first time of last thirty years has plunged into recession, Covid-19 pandemic has affected its economic growth, also at the start of the year 2020 a massive bushfire in Australia severely damaged the country’s economy.

After the pandemic is over, in the new world order, countries of the world seem to be divided, most of them will focus on their production, because the import and export of several countries will be affected negatively. In that new era, the countries that will be able to utilize their resources in the best possible way, they will survive. And the countries that fail to satisfy the needs of their respective nations owing to lack of resources, will surely face the major crisis.

In the new world order, internet-based digital currency cryptocurrency will touch its peak, it might get legal status even in those states where it is now banned. Israel will be the key player in that virtual currency game, new banking systems will be launched, there will be made new agreements, different new institutes will be established. In the public health sector, innovate and more powerful technology will be introduced which will play a major role. To cope with the challenges of climate change and cybercrime, enhanced cybersecurity initiatives will be taken.

After the World War II, the United Nations Organization was made to settle various conflicts among the countries of the then world, the same way, another international treaty the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996 to ban nuclear tests for civilian and military purposes. In the present situation of post-COVID-19 pandemic also, new global administrative bodies might be formed, new military alliances will be seen, updated labour standards will be released, a comparatively rapid process of globalization will be observed in the future.

We are now perhaps in the process of the making of a New World Order; Israel is now expending its relations to Arab states, Turkey on the other hand seems to be creating a separate alliance, Russia and China are also joining hands with Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, and Qatar. Afghan Taliban are going to be a strengthened military power in the region, India is looking towards the United States and Israel for support in dealing with Chinese military aggression, Chinese one belt initiative is a historic landmark for its economic exponential growth throughout Asia, Europe, America, and Africa. Pakistan-China Economic Corridor is a regional connectivity framework that will have a positive economic impact on all regional countries which have become its part.

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